fulviflamma, Sciaena Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:45, xi [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] No locality stated (Red Sea). Lectotype: ZMUC P4775 (dry skin). Paralectotypes: ZMB 1700 (1), ZMUC P4776 (dry skin). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:63 [ref. 9588], Fricke 2008:35 [ref. 30182]. Lectotype selected by Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:18 [ref. 20847]. Types figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:Pl. 12 [ref. 20847]. Species spelling when in Lutjanus needs research. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:35 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Lutjanus fulviflamma (Forsskål 1775) -- (Druzhinin 1973:54 [ref. 41045], Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:169 [ref. 6441], Dor 1984:139 [ref. 29757], Allen & Talbot 1985:37 [ref. 6491], Allen 1985:80 [ref. 6843], Allen in Anderson 1986:575 [ref. 5634], Allen 1986:324 [ref. 6208] as fulviflammus, Allen & Swainston 1988:80 [ref. 25477], Iwatsuki et al. 1989:476 [ref. 12750], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:526 [ref. 25598], Winterbottom et al. 1989:36 [ref. 13251] as fulviflammus, Randall et al. 1990:179 [ref. 15987], Kottelat et al. 1993:113 [ref. 23448], Francis & Randall 1993:120 [ref. 20996], Kuiter 1993:185 [ref. 23929] as fulviflammus, Francis 1993:161 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:37 [ref. 25356] as fulviflammus, Randall 1995:199 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:275 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:122 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:171 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:83 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:184 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:179 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:145 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:268 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:735 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:88 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:822 [ref. 25086], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:618 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:67 [ref. 25191], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:245 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:117 [ref. 25480], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703], Allen 2000:102 [ref. 25868], Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:243 [ref. 27511], Sakai et al. 2001:97 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:263 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Anderson & Allen 2001:2873 [ref. 26099], Nakabo 2002:822 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:38 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:34 [ref. 27712], Randall et al. 2004:16 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:121 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3321 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:199 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:246 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1199 [ref. 29090], Fricke 2008:35 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:61 [ref. 30213], Iwatsuki & Satapoomin 2009:138 [ref. 31128], Motomura et al. 2010:118 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:449 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:259 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:131 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:342 [ref. 32989], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:423 [ref. 33460], Fricke et al. 2014:85 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2014:1 [ref. 35337], Iwatsuki in Kimura et al. 2015:51 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:243 [ref. 34104], Miesen et al. 2016:89 [ref. 34492], Koeda et al. 2016:40 [ref. 35333], Fowler et al. 2017:[4] 2252 [ref. 36358], Kwun et al. 2017:141 [ref. 37287], Motomura et al. 2017:130 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:325 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[21] 259 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:195 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:90 [ref. 36273], Jawad et al. 2018:107 [ref. 36262], Iwatsuki in Kimura et al. 2018:150 [ref. 36460], Arndt & Fricke 2019:20 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:80 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:153 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:76 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 25 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:131 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:449 [ref. 37272], Yamakawa et al. 2020:74 [ref. 40470], Kovačić et al. 2021:72 [ref. 39014], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:185 [ref. 41223], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:237 [ref. 39746], Saad et al. 2022:105 [ref. 39999], Zajonz et al. 2022:142 [ref. 40522], Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412], Allen & Erdmann 2024:480 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus fulviflamma (Forsskål 1775). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Philippines, Samoa and Tonga, north to Sagami Bay (Japan) and southern Korea, south to Western Australia, southern New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia) and New Caledonia; invasive in eastern Mediterranean. Habitat: brackish, marine.